Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-10
The Trouble With People.
Somerville journal.

Somervlle Journal.
The trouble with a good many men
is that they spend so much time adj
miring their own ability that they
don't let other people have chance
to see that they have an ability to adj
mire.
The trouble with great many wo-
men is that they can't find some par
ticular selected man who will appre-
ciate them as they feel in their pal
pitating hearts that every woman
should be appreciated.
The trouble with good many girls
is that they don't find out what they
want until some time after they have
had the sad conclusion forced upon
them that what they want doesn't
want them.
The trouble with good many boys
is that they think the red grapes that
grow on a neighbours vine, and that
have to be picked after dark, are a
good deal sWeeter and better than the
ripe black grapes that grow on their
own vines and can be gathered in the
bright sunlight of publicity.
The trouble with great many read
ers is that they don't understand how
much easier it is to point out tree
in a magnificent landscape that is a
hairs breadth out of perspective than
it is to paint the magnificent land
scape itself.
The trouble with most of the horse
car conductors is that they haven't
eyes enough in the back of their
head to satisfy the public.
The trouble with a good many of
the school teachers is that the present
school year is divided wrong. In
stead of being forty weeks school and
, twelve weeks vacation they think it
should be forty weeks vacation and
twelve weeks school.
The trouble with two-thirds of the
boys and girls in the public schools is
that they don't have tifty-three weeks
vacation every year, with an addi-
tional week in leap year.
The trouble with most of the peo-
pie in this misguided world is that
they waste so much time thinking Of
their own virtues and enterprises that
they don't have leisure to see how
, laudable and useful your little schemes
are.
The trouble with the small boy is
that his big sister never was a small
boy herself, and so she doesn't know
how the small boy feels.
The trouble with the small girl is
that she isn't bigger.
q The trouble with the purist in gram
. mar is that people will persist il
! thinking that things themselves arr
! more important than how you say
them.
:, The trouble with lots of cats is tina
: they don't get enough dreamless sleel
q these November nights.
The trouble with milliners is tina
! the women folks don't get so enthus
6 iastic over their bills as they do Owe
their bonnets.
The trouble with the average wifi
is that her husband is more prodiga
with his protestations of affection
than he is with his money, and tina
!, he doesn't waste much of either un
=, less he wants a button sewed on.
g The trouble with the average hus
n band is that he knows his wife know
q he isn't so big man as he wants tn
6 world to think he is.
# The trouble with the people gener
p ally is that they can't always hav
o what they want, and they seldom
" think they want what they have
q that they see their own virtues an,
" other peoples vices with a magnify
: ing glass, and turn the telescope tn
u wrong end to when they look at thei
n own vices and other peoples virtues
+ that they grumble when things g
/ wrong instead of going to work t
# make things go right, and they or
: over spilled milk when, in all proba
e bility, the milk has all the water
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